There Goes the Differently-Abled Little Person Vote

How big of a mistake was it for the GOP to elect Steele?

Steele What A Joke!
Tip for the Gop
Get out of the Pass Think Anew.
Stop Catering to deep Red States only.
Stop trying to run Peoples Personal Lives Meaning Gay Marriage or womans right to Choose.
Think about the Little Guy for once and not Just the Wealthy.
Stop starting Senseless Wars.
Just a couple of tips for ya, But you still Have a ways to go. And Steele I dont Know whos worse Him or Palin.

Mr. Steele,
I’d focus my energy on cleaning house. No one likes to stay in a filthy home. You have members who are praising parts of the stimulus bill while lacking the courage to vote for it. Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann went on the radio and LIED about portions of the bill.
If you want people to join up, you’ve got to earn credibility and your members aren’t being honest OR courageous. You’re members are no better than some of the democrats but, democrats have shown more courage then your party has. For me, that means something.
Your the party of LINCOLN, get back to your roots!!

Peach –
Here’s the actual quotation: “I have nothing against white male construction workers. I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well.”
He was responding to a concerns about that the stimulus would do for women, who comprise about half of the workforce (not true during the Depression) and for segments of the population who have much higher unemployment rates than the national average. There were also concerns that the “shovel ready” projects were too concentrated in one industry (construction), which is why the final plan included a broad range of projects.
His remarks were often quoted in the right-wing press without any explanation other than the pundit’s opinion. Beware of partial news coverage. Read broadly, listen critically.

I’m in favor of cleaning out DC.

Is referring to Michael Steele as “black” any less offensive than referring to a little person as “midget”?

I dunno, Tapper’s headline was kind of dismissive. Maybe he’s channneling Ana Marie Cos.

…and check out my sister’s “catering company”.
What a tool.

haha…this dude’s sucha boon for comic relief…lol he’s got this grandiloquent way about him. He’s clueless but thinks he’s got something special. i love how he says: “no. we’re not gonna be cutting edge. that’s where democrats are right now. we’re going beyond cutting edge.” hahaha… And that’s after saying “we all know that in the history of mankind, gov’t has never created one job. Not one.”
i have little tolerance for the usual political buffons, but i sure don’t mind this dude…lol

Matt, I do not think it was a mistake at all. I think Steele will do a very good job of moving the Republican party forward.
Sammy, I think folks like Steele with experience on the state level will be a vital force in the Republican party over the next few years. He, Jindal, Sanford, Pawlenty, and yet, Palin, are pragmatic, reform minded, and forward leaning.
Jo, You don’t seem to have a notion of what it is that Steele will be selling as his vision of the future of the Republican party. I think his message will indeed resonate with young people, minorities, and others.
Shannon, I do not buy the argument that Republicans who like SOME elements of the stimulus package but abhor other elements of that same bill (now law) lack courage and credibility if they do not go ahead and vote for the whole package. Of course, most Republican lawmakers did not think every single line of the bill was wrong. However, most of them did feel that the package contained too much wasteful, untargeted spending and would do as much harm as good. Therefore, they had to vote against the bill. Would you have wanted Democrats, during the Bush administration, to vote for a bill that Bush proposed that had some elements they approved of but which had more elements that they considered beyond the pale? Of course not. That’s how the system works. You try to get a compromise you can live with (and the ability to do that was stymied here by the way Pelosi and Reid managed the bill-writing and conferencing) then you decide if the final result is something you can vote for or not. If not, that does not mean you repudiate the entire measure (although you might and some Republicans in this case clearly feel that way). I would argue, in fact, that voting no on the bill, knowing it would pass anyway, was courageous, because Republicans knew that they would get hammered for their vote by Democratic interest groups, and they have been. This was not the finest hour for either party, in my opinion, but I do not see opposition to this particular stimulus bill as the ruination of the Republican party.

I love Michael Steele.
I’m sure Steele expected a lot of criticism from Democrats because he looks different, not like your typical Repub.
But he doesn’t have a funny name so don’t be afraid.

“As for those “people who said I can’t make the trains run on time … I say to them, ‘Stuff it.’” ”
He didn’t really say this Jake did he?
That would seem to be a much more clueless uttering.

Im glad to hear about the GOP maybe getting into the Obama territory with the videos and stuff. I think it’s really smart they’ve gottta a black chair of the RNC to counteract the influence of Obama. But to be honest, Im not into hip hop. I hope they’ll bring in some more C&W into the mix. I hope the pickings aren’t too small cause really, most of the folks in the arts and entertainment fields aren’t Republicans.

Paige, he could use Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” to court some.
At the moment, I can’t think of another body shape song.

lol Paige!! Now we’ve got one shape covered.

Mea Culpa. I confused Michael Steele with Saltsman, the RNC candidate who passed around Barack the Magic Negro and the Star Spanglish Banner.
Nonetheless, his one armed midget and train remarks weren’t exactly politically sensitive. And I’m sorry to say this, but he strikes me as a token African American figure of the Republican Party. It’s not coincidental that he was brought out in the middle of Obama’s popularity and success, anymore than Steel’s proposed outreach to the youth vote with videos, which he lumps in with hockey moms. Like Palin, the hockey mom, was a contrivance for the women’s vote, so is Steele for the AA vote.

“The liberal females, FYI, are inclined to be more physically active..”
lol…Physically active to downsize their plumpiness, huh? Liberal females can only hope to be as intelligent, attractive, and as pleasant as someone like Sarah Palin.

“I think he was referring to all those plump liberal females.”
I do not think one’s plumpness is related to one’s political leanings.

I wonder if Steele intended to compare himself to Mussolini as a way of reassuring the GOP base that this is simply the stuff for public consumption and not a real program.

“I wonder if Steele intended to compare himself to Mussolini as a way of reassuring the GOP base that this is simply the stuff for public consumption and not a real program.”
I would like to think that he is clueless as to the origin of the quote.

Hip hop vs. Bluegrass
ummmmmmm NO

The jokes on all of us with all of these ‘elected’ leaders!

wassup with my inheritance. omg.